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Simon Julins, c. 1686/8–1778

Simon Julins, c. 1686/8–1778

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5. Simon Julins, c. 1686/8–1778

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Portrait of a Woman in Silk

Author(s):

Zara Anishanslin

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Yale University Press

DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300197051.003.0007

This chapter focuses on master weaver Simon Julins. Little is known about Julins the man. He left scant documentation beyond his will, house insurance survey, and membership records in the Weavers' Company of London. But certain small and illuminating idiosyncrasies punctuate that scarce record, which give an outline of the man. Much like Garthwaite, who as a woman designer in an industry so keenly competitive with the French was symbolic by the mere fact of gender, Julins, by the mere fact that he was a Spitalfields weaver of French Huguenot descent, was a laborer imbued with great symbolic importance. By virtue of what he did and when and where he did it, Julins provides insight into the ways in which politics, commerce, religion, gender, and labor coalesced around the fashionable commodity of silk and its production in the eighteenth-century British Empire.

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